Buffalo Boy's Blog

I've been saying it for months and Ill say it again, what went down with GM today was brought about by poor management and a refusal to be proactive when it came to auto design and technology.

Our auto industry is killing itself by being reactive in a time when Toyota, Volkswagon, Honda, Nissan and just about every foreign car company worth its salt has been proactive to the rising gas prices.

GM insisted on big big big. Why? because we, the American consumers wanted big big big. So it is partly our fault as consumers. But GM should have been the leader and said we are going to have a line of small cars that are good on gas. They were not proactive and now they are paying the price.

A guy on WBEN's the Ron Dobson show called in swearing by the American car and we should buy American no matter what, and if you go to Japan you don't see American cars on the road there. What he didn't say because of his obvious ignorance and lack of knowledge is the reason you don't see American cars there is because many of our manufacturer's don't build cars that meet the fuel economy that foreign countries like Japan have set forth.

Gee, there is a novel idea that our government just got wind of over the last several months. Setting national fuel economy standards. That way, we don't have to worry about whether or not our car companies lead the way, they have to build them more efficient.

But, Im willing to bet the reason why that idea took so long, because Bush and his administration are content with the American public driving around in Hummers, Chevy Tahoes and big ass trucks sucking up all the oil and gas they can. What Bush wasn't counting on was a huge sector of our economy, the auto industry is now suffering because our government failed to set fuel standards earlier.

Either way, someone dropped the ball and for that they deserve being in the financial tank.